“support for all devices that is not officially ‘Powered by SteamOS’ is not final.”
Who does the copyreading before publication at Valve?
I was able to get battery limiting via PowerTools and Decky, but I love that they’re baking this into the core.
Love the Bluetooth remote functionality! I can finally turn it on with my Flipper lol.
Does this mean I can install SteamOS on any device?
We expect most SteamOS users to get SteamOS preinstalled on a Steam Deck or device that incorporates SteamOS. The only devices officially supported on SteamOS right now are Steam Deck and Legion Go S. We are working on broadening support, and with the recent updates to Steam and SteamOS, compatibility with other AMD powered PC handhelds has been improved. If you are interested in trying out SteamOS on your device and providing feedback, you can use the SteamOS Recovery Image
Really glad to see the 80% charge limit for people like me who use their Deck primarily at home.
See that’s one thing I liked about Samsung when I had it, the model I had had a 80% cap, but it read like you were at 100%, there was understandably some backlash because consumers felt like they were being lied to, but it was genuinely in the interest of expanding consumers battery life, so… A white lie?
While it would expand battery life that doesn’t mean their intent was genuine. Could be a concern about their phone’s image: “100%” looks better than “80%”. It sounds like the “you’re too stupid to understand” route.
Yea they’ve changed it to show 80% now. At least on my device (fold 5).
Pixel has it now too
woaa I was literally wondering if they could add that as a feature like 10 minutes ago! Yippee
valve is such a damn great firm!!!
lord gaben giveth, never takes away.
I sure hope he keeps his sanity and will have a worthy successor one day.
They should be training AI on Gaben so one day it can take over Valve.
Potentially a collaboration/society of existing employees. That would be the best alternative for those hoping to keep Valve as the Valve we already know.
Because his son is completely uninterested, he’s entirely focused on racing cars, which if fair enough, but likely means he would simply sell the company given the chance.
Why think the verge and not just valves official website?
I kind of wish they first released a Steam Deck 2 because they might shift their focus towards SteamOS now.
While I understand the sentiment, if they switch to SteamOS as a primary focus, what’s the problem with buying someone else’s handheld that’s built to run SteamOS? There are already handhelds more performant than the Steam Deck out there, once they have official SteamOS support what’s the difference? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve actually bought an absurd number of Steam Decks so far for myself and for friends/family, but once they die, if there’s no Steam Deck 2, I’ll probably just pick up a handheld that is built specifically to run SteamOS
I have a shitty Nintendo switch and no steam deck. Consider yourself lucky the availability is there lol. Steam Deck 2 just sounds like over saturation to me.
probably best they wait for the next major tech breakthrough at least since we know they’ll never manage a third
I’m just thinking of my past experience where they also left stuff like the Link and SteamOS 1.
Steam Deck is way more successful.
actually wasn’t deck steam os versioned as 3? maybe they broke the cycle
Yeah.
1 was Debian based. 2 was not released. 3. is now Arch based.
The hardware is fairly trivial to engineer. Building an OS is not. That’s why we’ve seen a dozen different OEMs and zero new OS’s.
If it means Valve dedicates all the resourced they have to SteamOS and we never see another Steam Deck, I would have no problem with that.
It is just immutable modded Arch Linux with some particular optimisations. While I am sure the task to create it is not so trivial. I am also sure that their hardware engineers put immense effort into designing and building the Steam Deck, which is no small feat. Selecting the components, thermal design, power design etc. considerations that need to be taken into account while building such a device is very challenging, I am sure and their hardware engineers did an excellent job. That’s why the Steam Deck is also so much superior to rival handheld devices.
That’s why the Steam Deck is also so much superior to rival handheld devices.
Is it? I mean as far as I can tell the only advantages it has is:
- Trackpads (which I’ve literally never used, personally)
- Power efficiency (which is overcome in the Ally X by cramming in a bigger battery)
- OLED display (not objectively better).
- 800p display (also not objectively better).
- Aftersales support (which I consider a major asset but many consumers obviously don’t).
I’ve only ever had a Steam Deck but certainly I can see why many people opt for other handhelds and just put Bazzite or similar on them.
They specifically said they’d wait for technological justification for a new version. AMD/Intel simply might not have something at the moment that they can use that is significantly better with similar thermals.
